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The Grass-Type is Always Greener (Japanese: ナエトル対ナエトル！スピード対決！！ Naetle vs. Naetle! Speed Showdown!!) is the 31st episode of Diamond & Pearl. It first aired in Japan on April 26, 2007 and in the United States on October 6, 2007.

The group becomes lost in Eterna Forest while searching for the "enchanted honey." They come across Gardenia, who asks for a two-on-two battle.

Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.

Synopsis

Major events

• Ash has an unofficial battle with Gardenia:
  • Ash's Turtwig defeats Gardenia's Cherubi.
  • Gardenia's Turtwig defeats Ash's Turtwig.
  • Gardenia's Turtwig defeats Ash's Staravia.

Debuts

• Gardenia

Pokémon debuts

• Cherubi
• Combee

Characters

Humans

• Ash Ketchum
• Dawn
• Brock
• Jessie
• James
• Gardenia (Seiyū: 本多知恵子 Chieko Honda)
• Cheryl (Seiyū: 川村万梨阿 Maria Kawamura)

Pokémon

• Pikachu (Ash's)
• Meowth (Team Rocket)
• Wobbuffet (Jessie's)
• Turtwig (Ash's)
• Staravia (Ash's)
• Croagunk (Brock's)
• Seviper (Jessie's)
• Cacnea (James's)
• Carnivine (James's)
• Turtwig (Gardenia's) (Seiyū: 伊東みやこ Miyako Itō)
• Nuzleaf (Gardenia's)
• Cherubi (Gardenia's) (Seiyū: 西村ちなみ Chinami Nishimura)
• Chansey (Cheryl's)
• Burmy (Cheryl's)
• Mothim (Cheryl's) (Seiyū: 川上とも子 Tomoko Kawakami)
• Caterpie
• Kakuna
• Beedrill
• Gloom (Seiyū: 林原めぐみ Megumi Hayashibara*)
• Ledyba
• Combee

* No official credit was given for this character.

Trivia

• This is the second episode of a three-episode arc.
• Music from Destiny Deoxys is used as background music.
• Aerial Ace cannot miss under normal conditions in the game.
• Turtwig is one of the slowest Pokémon in the game.
• Meowth uses something that looks similar to a Nunchuk, an extension of the Wiimote, to control the blimp.
• Professor Oak's Pokémon lecture: Chimchar
  • Pokémon senryū: さあバトル　かえんぐるまで　もえあがれ Saa batoru / Kaenguruma de / Moe agare "Come, a battle / With Flame Wheel / Burst into flame."
• The next episode preview is narrated by Ash.

Errors

• After Ash's Staravia was defeated by Gardenia's Turtwig, it said "Staraptor" instead of its name when it fainted.

Dub edits

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